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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF WASHINGTON

No. 14715.

233 F.2d 811 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, Gas and Oil Development Company, a Corporation, Union Oil Company of California, a Corporation, Grays Harbor County, Los Nietos Company, a Corporation, Tom Hawksworth and James E. Hill, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 15, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Roger P. Marquis, Fred W. Smith, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Charles P. Moriarty, U. S. Atty., Seattle, Wash., for appellant.

Don Eastvold, Atty. Gen., Mitchell Doumit, Roy Fox, Asst. Attys. Gen., E. Albert Morrison, Tacoma, Wash., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS and POPE, Circuit Judges, and MATHES, District Judge.

MATHES, District Judge.

The Government appeals from a judgment dismissing "with prejudice", after trial, an action against the State of Washington and the other appellees to quiet the title to certain Washington real property claimed by the United States of America as trustee for certain Indian wards.

Jurisdiction was invoked under 28 U.S. C. § 1345, but the assertion of jurisdiction is challenged at the outset with the claim that, by virtue of sovereign...

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